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The Tilford Group selected Redeployment by Phil Klay as the 2026-2027 READ title.

Info about the book and author Phil Klay here.

Phil Klay's Redeployment takes readers to the frontlines of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, providing a glimpse of what happened there. And a harsh view of what happens to soldiers who return. Interwoven with themes of brutality and faith, guilt and fear, helplessness and survival, the characters in these stories struggle to make meaning out of chaos.

Locations - Axe Library Room 029. 

Times & Dates - Tuesdays at 3 pm

Tentative Fall 2026 schedule:

September 15th

September 22nd

September 29th

October 6th 

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The Tilford Group has selected the book The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness for the 2025-2026 READ title.

Info about the book and author Jonathan Haidt here.

Locations - Axe Library Room 029. 

Times & Dates - Thursdays at 3 pm

Spring Dates passed

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The Tilford Group has selected the book Life Isn't Binary: On Being Both, Beyond, and In-Between for the 2024-2025 READ title. Read more about the book by authors Meg-John Barker and Alex Iantaffi here.

Summary - "...This book addresses the key issues with binary thinking regarding our relationships, bodies, emotions, wellbeing and our sense of identity and sets out a range of practices which may help us to think in more non-binary, both/and, or uncertain ways." -Bookshop reviews.

Locations - Axe Room 029
Times - Tuesdays at 3pm
Dates: Fall Semester

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The Tilford group selected the graphic memoir Almost American Girl: An Illustrated Memoir as the 2023-2024 READ title.  ( book review )

Spring 2024 Dates and Plan:

All Sessions at 3 pm in Axe Rm 104A (Triangle room). Lite snacks available plus visit the coffee shop.  

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We are looking for Faculty, staff, and students to sign-up and participate. We will be reading and discussing this graphic memoir in the Fall and Spring semesters.  

PSU students and employees please use this form to sign-up. Professors looking to sign up their class please use this form as well. There are available copies for participants, courtesy of the Tilford group. Additional copies can be checked out from Leonard H. Axe Library. 

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Dates and Times for READ sessions:

Week 1 February 21 at 6 pm
Week 2 February 28 at 6 pm
Week 3 March 7 at 6 pm
Week 4 March 21 at 6 pm 

Locations: Sessions held in Axe Library Room 029 

Reading Guide See Canvas for resources

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Title: Demystifying Disability
Author: Emily Ladau

PSU Students and PSU employes use the form to sign-up for the upcoming READ sessions. Professors looking to sign up a class, please leave notes in the form.  

The Tilford group selected What If I Say The Wrong Thing: 25 Habits For Culturally Effective People as the 2021-2022 READ Title. The Fall 2021 and SPring 2022 sessions will be book group discussions on small sections from the book themed around specific culturally effective habits.    

Faculty, staff, and students are encouraged to check out a copy (from Axe Library) or sign up for a gift copy. See the Tilford Canvas page for supplemental materials that go with the title. 

The Tilford group selected The Best We Could Do as the 2020-2021 READ title. In the Fall semester, READ-Aloud and Book Discussion sessions were held.  

Faculty, staff, and students are encouraged to check out a copy (from Axe Library) or sign up for a gift copy. See the Tilford Canvas page for supplemental materials that go with the title. 

Tilford will gift a select number of titles to students interested in participating in the discussions.

SIGN UP Form  Professors! You are encouraged to sign up, or nominate a student(s) in your class.  

Check Out what participants had to say about the Fall Read-Aloud sessions. 

READ Title Info: The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir - Abramsbooks 

Title covers themes:

• Family                     
• Intergenerational conflict
• Displacement
• Immigration
• Sense of Home
• Vietnam War
• Refugee experience

During the Spring of 2019 Tilford members met to select the first READ book. 

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates was the 2019-2020 title.

Pilot Project

During the Summer of 2019 a number of students were gifted copies of the book during the end of the year Michael J. Tilford Banquet. Many of these students were able to travel and hear the author present.

Students were encouraged to read the title during the summer and fall semester. During the Fall a small group of students got together to discuss the book, its meaning to them, and more. 

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